American humanists, untutored in sociology, are knocked out by Foucault’s daring: analyze crime and punishment, prisons and penal codes! Gee, I wish I’d thought of that! Well, Foucault didn’t think of it either. It’s in Durkheim’s The Division of Labour in Society. (SAAC 1992)
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Replying to @PagliaQuotes
You just can't discipline yourself, Camille, to sit down and read him. Too bad. Most American intellectuals, Jordan Peterson included, just don't seem to have the discipline to read French po-mo theory.
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Replying to @johndavidebert @PagliaQuotes
I've read French po-mo theory and can say that it is absolute garbage. Derrida, Lacan, Cixous - all peddlers of irrelevant theories which have little to nothing to do with the real world.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nTXOF7K2ZA …
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Replying to @KevinShau @PagliaQuotes
You might've read them but you didn't understand them. If you had then you'd be aware of their applicability to all sorts of things. I've spent decades writing books applying their ideas to very concrete things: books, films, events, etc.
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I'm sure I've heard creationists use exactly this argument. "If you don't accept the bible as god-given truth then you must not have understood it!" OK dear.
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That's a retarded thing to say. The analogy has no validity. I find postmodern thought quite useful in understanding culture, especially contemporary art, most of which doesn't make much sense without some knowledge of it.
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Replying to @johndavidebert @Banned_Ali and
Most contemporary art is notoriously bad, and all art has to be its own best explanation. Bad artists who possess the same conformist, careerist mindset as academics jumped on the Pomo/post-structuralism bandwagon and use it to excuse lack of skill, talent, vision and quality.
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A lot of it is bad, I agree. But a lot of it is stuff that I thought was bad until I sat down and studied it, learned what it meant and then was able to appreciate quite a bit o it. That's why I wrote "Art After Metaphysics" to help people understand it.
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